➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[GoldenChooks]

How are your little quailies doing?

Good, there already grown so much! And they make a mess in the brooder as soon as I clean it

 

[Glitterchicks]

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They look HUGE!

 

[GoldenChooks]

Good, there already grown so much! And they make a mess in the brooder as soon as I clean it

Also the other egg that I had in there was a quitter, it died around day 15 I'm thinking.

 

[Kiki]

New Lenox IL 60451

WE HAVE BALUT! I Called!
http://tainammarket.com

 

[Kiki]

My hubby wants to put the ducks with the chicks so he doesn't want us to get a male as of yet. Maybe later on once we get accustomed to taking care of them and then we can separate them. I know no male ducks around my chickens. But this is the area that we have the chicks in now. This is just for reference. It's a fenced in area that is 80' x 100'. Woven goat fencing (cause I planned on getting goats at some point) and we realized that the chicks could walk right thru it. The boogers! So we ordered hardware cloth because no one had it local in the amount we needed and that took a while so until we got it in, we went with that silt cloth you see around construction sites. LOL It works great and was cheap enough. We thought about moving the chicks to a dif area because I want to actually BUILD them a decent coop (we just have the prefab atm) so we just never put up the hardware cloth around the area. Figured we'd use it later.
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It's that upper section. The lower section is our dog pen. The chick area isn't how I really want it yet. We want to add a couple of trees for shade (will do this fall). Maybe another canopied area. Some more pallet shelters (just a pallet on cinder blocks) for them to run under if needed. So I guess I need to know, do I have to section off an area for the ducks? We have 6 chicks right now. I do want more but not a whole lot more. Maybe max out a 12 total. As for the duckies, I think I want at least 3. My chicks are 13 weeks old. Will there be fighting or can the 2 be combined? Or would it be better to have them in their own area? Dang I write a frickin novel. I'm sry ya'll!

I don't see why you can't house/keep ducks with chickens.
There are MANY people right here on BYC that do it successfully, even with male ducks.

 

[BantyChooks]

i wonder if the hatchery people pulled her from the egg to early?

Hatcheries don't assist any chicks.

 

[Kiki]

They look HUGE!

They are not.
They are still itty bitty babies.
Just barely 2 days old.

 

[Kiki]

Good, there already grown so much! And they make a mess in the brooder as soon as I clean it

I really like paper towels for newly hatched things.
It's so easy to keep and eye on poops with them and easy to pick one up and put a new one down really quick.

 

[Molpet]

WE HAVE BALUT! I Called!
http://tainammarket.com

thats in CHICAGO
1 h 52 min (46.8 miles)
I do not go to CHICAGO more than once a decade .. less if possible
I already went this decade

 

[Kiki]

thats in CHICAGO
1 h 52 min (46.8 miles)
I do not go to CHICAGO more than once a decade .. less if possible
I already went this decade

I am fairly certain we will only find balut in normal size cities.
I Googled your zip and looked for the nearest normal size city.

Let me try again.
BRB